DHAKA: Prosecutors say the Belgian confessed to being the fugitive third attacker at Brussels airport bombing seen on video

Mohamed Abrini, the Paris attacks suspect arrested in Brussels, admitted to being the fugitive third attacker at the airport bombing last month, Belgian prosecutors said on Saturday.

Authorities had been frantically seeking the so-called ‘man in the hat’ ever since he was filmed alongside the two bombers just before the deadly March 22 airport blasts. Reports ALJAZEERA

Abrini, captured on Friday, confessed his presence at the crime scene. He explained having thrown away his vest [jacket] in a garbage bin and having sold his hat afterward, the federal prosecutor's office said.

He is charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist group and terrorist murders, it said in a statement.

BDST: 0925 HRS, APR 10, 2016
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